[El_Phil]

As the average Russian unit gets barely enough hours to stay qualified on the jet, that's a problem. Wasn't a problem in the Cold War and of course back then the whole support and ground infrastructure also worked. They also had numbers and kit such as the AA-11. (So good that when Germany re-unified and the West German airforce got their hands on one they immediatedly started developing the IRIS-T as copy with Western electronics)

As I understood your point you were talking about US designed aircraft vs Soviet designed aircraft in combat that has happened. The only ones I can thing off all have one side with well trained pilots and decent C3I support on the ground against badly trained pilots with no backup. Always favouring the side with the US planes. So you can't judge the planes on that performance. I would also point you at the recent India-US airforce exercises where the F-15s were badly mauled by the Flankers. Now it may have been a rigged exercise (no AWACS and limited range AMRAAMS) but the Indians operated under the same restrictions (the fact they don't own any AWACS platforms is neither here nor there).

So just assuming the Soviet airforce would be swept from the sky is a tad arrogant.